i'm not sure whether this is possible in a TextView, but in a WebView, you can override the handling of clicks on URLs and do pretty much whatever you like.
check out WebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(). >Is it possible to use a hyperlink in android to do something other >than open a web page? I want to use a hyperlink in a TextView to >luanch a new activity, or something along those lines. I have a large >document and I want to let the user jump to references within the doc >(like a footnote or something). Can this be done? > >Ken > > -- jason.vp.engineering.particle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---